Dear Jim,
I recently encountered an SIS 6202 video card (it's quite old, with 1MB memory) while
setting up one of my
workstations. The default /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 Xserver binary couldn't
detect the card even
with the XSERVER=auto or XSERVER=SIS directive in the /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf
file . I did the same using
the xserver from the ltsp_x336_svga.tgz package with no success (i guess maybe the
modules for the card
were just not compiled with it)
Looking for a quick fix, I went to the xfree86 site to check out my card and found a
support for 86c202 on its
version 3.3.6. I downloaded it and used it for the card. It worked.
Now, my question Jim.
1. Is it safe to just download X servers straightaway for use on the LTSP environment?
(there must be a
reason why you ship a separate X server with LTSP)
2. What is the proper way in doing this (i.e. adding support for video cards to the X
Server)?
3. Are there any memory penalties in (1) above? (the X Server binaries i downloaded
from the xfree site
were quite large compared to what was shipped with LTSP).
Thanks,
phil
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